pachrist

joined 1 year ago
[–] pachrist 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for veterans, they aren't risking their lives for their country. They're risking their lives for the special interests of corporate oligarchs who couldn't care less about them.

[–] pachrist 68 points 4 days ago

What if instead of working, I spend two hours making a salty post about people not working?

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[–] pachrist 4 points 1 week ago

Do what the founding fathers did.

Sic semper tyrannis.

Now I'm on a watch list.

[–] pachrist 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My wife is a teacher, so we use her healthcare, but I still peek in at the healthcare at my job when enrollment comes along, just to be diligent.

It went up 20% this year, from $600 to $720. If you make $30K a year and got a 3% cost of living adjustment, you make less this year than last year from healthcare alone.

Food, gas, rent, cars, childcare, utilities, everything is up. I guess it's cool that US steel or something might be doing well, and the stock market is up, but that minimally affects the day to day of most people.

[–] pachrist 14 points 1 week ago (24 children)

My guy, Biden blocked a railroad workers strike because it endangered corporate interests, and he didn't give them a key piece they were asking for: paid sick leave.

[–] pachrist 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I ran Fedora on my Framework when I first got it, a couple years ago, but the battery life and sleep behavior was just awful. Love Linux on desktop, hate it on a laptop. Should I revisit?

[–] pachrist 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes. Special forces are vetted with lots of testing before joining. However, once they're done doing things that make many psychologically stable people very unstable, they're released back into the general population with little to no help or followup.

[–] pachrist 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I love that the only thing standing between him and sexually asualting people is social media. If it wasn't for Tom and MySpace taking social media to the masses, this guy would be a pervert. GeoCities was a thing, so he's not a weird, masculinity obsessed rapist. We're so lucky.

[–] pachrist -1 points 2 weeks ago

Every 4 years, hundreds of millions of people set their conscience to the side and continue to vote for the thing they'll complain about until the next time, when they do it all again.

[–] pachrist 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see lots of people talking about how bad this is, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it in light of Trump's utter mishandling of Hurricane Maria.

It's been 7 years but it's absolutely salt in the wound.

[–] pachrist 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe if there were a story in a book about people not listening to NOAA and they were destroyed in a massive flood. Maybe, just maybe, that would help them understand.

[–] pachrist 42 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's sad how much this will hurt good people who work for the Washington Post and how little this will affect Bezos.

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